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First dean of KU architecture school declares retirement
By Benjamin W. Allen
Professor plans to leave KU
Charles Kahn, first dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, looks forward to retirement after 22 years at the University.
By Benjamin W. Allen Kansan staff writer
After 22 years of service to the University of Kansas as a professor and as the first dean of the School of Design, Charles Kahn is retiring. Design, Charles Kahn is retiring.
Kahn, 65, began his career as dean at the school's inception in the 1988-89 academic year and held the position until he stepped down to full time.
“It’s time.” Kahn said. “There are other things I want to do that I will not have a chance to do if I wait.”
"It was both an honor and a challenge to be the first dean," he said. "It was a pleasurable experience with an enormous amount of satisfaction working with what I felt were an absolutely superb group of individuals."
Kahn said his introduction to the University was quite aiolt.
"I got to the University of Kansas when it was the beginning of the year convocation at which Clark Wescoe, who had hired me, told me. He was then into the convocation, that he resigned as chancellor," he said.
"That was my welcoming to the University."
Kahn said it was hard to pinpoint what accomplishments he was most proud of because there was nothing
He also said KU was a stimulating environment during his early years.
Heller said that even after Kahn stepped down as dean he continued to show a willingness to try things that were new and different and that his innovations made a difference in the classroom.
"Even in the midst of all the physical and political unrest of the late 60s and early 70s, it still was a problem for me, but I and I will regret not leaving it," he said.
Francis Heller, professor emeritus of law and vice chancellor of academic affairs when Kahn was hired, said Kahn had provided the necessary leadership for the new school.
"He brought a tremendous amount of energy and imagination to the job," Heller said. "In the initial years of his deanship, he provided the kind of leadership the faculty had been looking for."
he had done for which he was solely responsible.
"The things I'm proudest of are the school, its faculty, its national reputation, the kinds of graduates we have, their reputation and the dedication they have to the University and the school." he said.
He said he thought the school could be proud of having been at the forefront of the social responsibility movement during the early years.
"We got out of the ivory tower into the urban problems of Kansas City and Lawrence," he said.
"Unfortunately, that emphasis and that drive has faded both from the society and the school."
Kahn plans to move back to his home state of North Carolina where he will pursue a doctorate in art and sculpture at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"I's something I've always wanted to do," he said. "I also want to open another practice I haven't seen anything in the 22 years I've been here."
"I feel I need to build some buildings before I get too old and crotchety for clients to deal with."
"There were commitments that had been made to me that were not
Kahn said that one problem he faced as dean was to attract and retain nationally known faculty, and the institution did not because of faculty salary issues.
'The things I'm proudest of are the school, its faculty, its national reputation, the kinds of graduates we have, their reputation and the dedication they have to the University and the school.'
- Charles Kahn First dean of architecture
honored," he said. "I felt the only thing I could do in all honesty was to step down, take a promotion and go back to teaching."
Kahn said one of the nicest things that had happened since he announced he was taking early retirement was the first-year students who had told him how disappointed they were because they wanted to take his studio class next year.
"Teaching is the best of all worlds," he said. "You come in contact with bright, excited, able, motivated students."
Kahn said he thought the school was academically strong and hoped it retained pluralism in its ideas.
"I'd like to see it reflect a variety of opinion," he said. "To not have a particular cant."
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